Love Mathobela was born in South Africa and has lived most of her life here, but she is not yet recognised as a citizen.
Tariro Washinyira
17 October 2012
Lulamile Gagu was found guilty on twelve counts of rape at the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court on 10 October. He will be sentenced on 29 October.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
17 October 2012
A soup kitchen serving poor people in Somerset West struggles to stay open following pressure for it to relocate from the ward councillor and a business woman.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
17 October 2012
Baphumelele Children's Home is a home for children who are orphaned, abandoned, abused or neglected. It is located in Khayelitsha's Site B, Z section.
Nokubonga Yawa
17 October 2012
The Western Cape has many talented artists. But often they struggle to make a living doing what they love. A talented artist who is determined to make it is Mxolisi Moyi a local Afro soul artist that hails from the township of Nyanga East infamously known for its high level of crime.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
17 October 2012
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has announced a customised draft plan for each school recommended for closure.
GroundUp staff
17 October 2012
GroundUp spoke to Niven Scott, a 20-year old central midfielder for Junction Rovers, a promising team in the SAB League.
Margo Fortune
17 October 2012
Next month young activists will attempt to make Bhisho the centre of the world. Members of Equal Education (EE) will be present throughout the duration of a court case aimed at securing infrastructure standards for every school in South Africa.
Doron Isaacs
17 October 2012
The Constitutional Court is proving that there is life after Chaskalson, Langa, O’Regan and Ngcobo. Many feared that new Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng would usher in an era of slavish Executive-mindedness – and that may still come true – but recent judgments of the Court are quite the opposite.
Doron Isaacs
10 October 2012
There’s an astonishing blind spot that afflicts most of South Africa’s elites and intelligentsia, and indeed, our civilisation. It’s particularly tragic that South Africa, which suffered nearly 10 years of HIV denialism, should now also be afflicted by climate change denial.
David Le Page
10 October 2012
It has been three months since three young guys from Khayelitsha opened the first coffee shop in the township. Since then it has only got better.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
10 October 2012
In a world wracked by ongoing economic crises, what is the role of trade unions? And if they focus
solely on “bread and butter issues”, are they, as National Union of Mineworkers spokesman Lesiba
Seshoka says, doomed to fail because “broader policies are shaped at a political level”.
Terry Bell
10 October 2012
A husband accused of abuse is fighting for his life in the intensive care unit of Eben Donges Hospital in Worcester. His wife alleges he sustained injuries when he intentionally burnt down her shack and property worth R10,000 a fortnight ago.
Tariro Washinyira
10 October 2012
Approximately a thousand people marched to the Provincial Legislature building on Friday 5 October, which was also International Teachers Day, in protest against the closure of 27 schools in the Western Cape by MEC for Education, Donald Grant.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
10 October 2012
In this important paper, Gavin Hartford analyses the root causes of the mining industry strikes and proposes solutions.
Gavin Hartford
10 October 2012
GroundUp spoke to Kaizer Chiefs Junior's Steven Sibanyoni.
Margo Fortune
10 October 2012
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